Date Night: Restaurant Style Steak Dinner with Creamed Spinach

This recipe is almost not even mine. My dear husband actually likes to do the steak part, and so it was not very much work for me at all! Bonus: it’s so fast, yet still fancy!

We learned about how restaurants cook steaks about four years ago. The secret is to give the outside a good sear and then finish the middle in the oven. It’s done in less than five minutes, depending on how you like your steak. We eat them pretty red at home, and they’re sooo good that way! Red meat isn’t meant to be brown. ? Since then, we’ve made them countless times. In college, Justin charged all his friends $10 and fed 12 people steaks one Saturday for lunch!

Steaks are usually a celebratory food in our home. We actually had a morning wedding and planned to cook dinner together for our first act as a married couple that night…we made these steaks. The ones in the photo were to celebrate the start of another semester at Justin’s school, and usher in the new year!

This is also nearly a one-pan dinner! You might also want to include another side, like potatoes (or wine!). All you need to do is prep the butter a little bit beforehand, and date night dinner’s ready to go in less than 20 minutes.

#enJOY and impress your date with this great and fast recipe! Let me know if you’ve ever made restaurant-style steak at home.

I love a buttery steak and that creamed spinach looks so decadent and yummy. I really like the addition of mushrooms in there, looks like it makes the side nice and hearty. This would save mega bucks versus eating at a steak restaurant – Thanks!!!

A good steak is a wonderful meal and that compound butter sounds fantastic! I so agree that red meat is supposed to be red and I love the idea of red wine as a side. Do you think adding the juice from the steaks would be good mixed into the spinach?

I am so excited about this recipe! We make steak so often in our house, but with how FREEZING it is outside, I never feel up to grilling it. I always feel so incompetent at cooking a steak on the stove top, but these instructions are so helpful!